ART. 14 THE CHALCID-FLY GENUS CAL.LIMOME HUBER 89 



on Querchs garryana Douglas, collected by J. M. Miller at Ashland, 

 Oreg. Three specimens, Hopkins No. 12595P, reared February 26, 

 1915, from Disholcaspis maculipennis Gillette on Quercus garryana 

 Douglas, collected by J. M. Miller at Ashland, Oreg. Six specimens, 

 Hopkins No. 47a with no data. Twenty-four specimens. No. 22° 

 Sacramento, reared August and September from Cynipid galls on 

 Quercus wislizenii De Candolle at Folsom, Calif. 



In author's collection are several specimens reared from galls col- 

 lected by A. C. Kinsey. The dates given refer to the time the galls 

 were collected and not to when the Chalcids emerged. One specimen 

 reared from Andricus pomiforinis Bassett on Quercus wislizenii De 

 Candolle, Three Rivers, Calif., March 23, 1920. Three specimens 

 reared from Andricus pacijicus Ashmead on Quercus chrysolepis Lieb- 

 mann, El Portal, Calif., March 26, 1920. Three specimens reared 

 from Disholcaspis corallina (Bassett) on Quercus douglasi Hooker and 

 Arnott, Byron, Calif., March 19, 1920. One specimen reared from 

 DisJiolcaspis plumhella Kinsey on Quercus dumosa Nuttall, S. Jacinto 

 Mountains, Calif., February 28, 1920, and one specmen of Disholcas- 

 pis simulata Kinsey with the same data. Four specimens reared 

 from Disholcaspis maculipennis Gillette on Quercus garryana Douglas, 

 Yreka, Calif., April 4, 1920, and two specimens from Ashland, Oreg., 

 with same data. One specimen reared from Andricus calif ornicus- 

 glabrescens Kinsey on Quercus dumosa Nuttall, El Toro, Calif., Feb- 

 ruary 14, 1920. Four specimens reared from Andricus calif ornicus 

 (Bassett) on Quercus dumosa Nuttall, Alpine, Calif., February 24, 1920. 

 Two specimens reared from Andricus calif ornicus calif ornicus Kinsey 

 on Quercus douglasi Hooper and Arnott, Gilroy, Calif., March 19, 

 1920. Two specimens reared from Andricus calif ornicus calif ornicus 

 Kinsey on Quercus lohata Nees, Paso Robles, Calif., March 7, 1920. 

 One specimen Disholcaspis maculipennis Gillette on Quercus garryana 

 Douglas, Ashland, Oreg., April 4, 1920. 



The variation in this species is quite apparent. In specimens 

 reared from the same gall the ovipositor may be proportionately one- 

 third longer than normal. Color varies from a golden-green to a 

 decided coppery. And as in most species the size varies apparently 

 according to the food supply. 



81. CALLIMOME ELEGANTISSIMUM Ashmead 



Figure 41 



Callimome elegantissima Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 9, 1881, 

 Proc. p., XXXIV. 



Synto7naspis elegantissima (Ashmead) Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 

 14, 1887, p. 187. 



Female. — Length 4.5 mm.; ovipositor 5.25 mm. Thoracic dorsum 

 coarsely punctured and very distinctly cupreous. Head transverse 



